English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim

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desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

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Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Daniel Barenboim — Artist · desert is.land

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3 episodes

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1970s

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Decades seen

Castaways who chose this

Lyall Watson
Lyall Watson on speaking forty different kinds of monkey fluently
Castaway · 24 July 1982Roy Plomley
Sir John Glubb
John Glubb on finding his World War I diary after 50 years in a trunk
Castaway · 15 April 1978Roy Plomley

desert is.land

“And if you could take only one…” — a semantic wireless tuned to the Desert Island Discs archive.

The listing

Transmission

Not affiliated with the BBC · Built for the love of the long wave · Made by Daniel Hails

Shirley Conran on walking down Tottenham Court Road with her morale shattered

Castaway · 16 July 1977Roy Plomley